Historical Workplaces and Practices

Black and white images depicting workers engaged in various tasks, highlighting historical millwork, vegetable packing, and craft industries from the mid-20th century.

Millwork. Setting cabinet sink. Southeast Missouri project yard. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Missouri , New Madrid County

Crude Products: Bolts and Handicraft - Pennsylvania. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Millwork. Setting cabinet sink. Southeast Missouri project yard. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Missouri , New Madrid County

Scene in vegetable packing plant at Deerfield, Florida. Most of the workers are migrants 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Peddler lining crates with newspapers before packing them with vegetables. San Antonio, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Antonio, Texas , Bexar County

Wheat sampling machine. Walla Walla, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Walla Walla, Washington (State) , Walla Walla County

Sawmill Interiors - Massachusetts. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

4-H Club Boys Sacking Seed Potatoes. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Red Lake Agency. 1964-. Photographs

Polishing rice. State rice mill, Crowley, Louisiana. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana , Crowley, Louisiana , Acadia Parish

Weighing a sack of mohair at the Kimble County Wool and Mohair Company warehouse, Junction, Texas. These sacks weigh close to three hundred pounds 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Junction, Texas , Kimble County

Hydraulic pressure is applied to bags of crushed olives to force out the oil. The first pressing extracts about seventy-five percent of the entire oil content. This is fine virgin olive oil. Lindsay, California 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Lindsay, California , Tulare County

Elsevier photo collection. Restoration town hall Gouda. Steenhouwer work. September 21, 1949. Gouda

Saddle maker sewing saddle while repairing it. Saddle shop, Alpine, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Alpine, Texas , Brewster County

Negro tenant farmer who grew strawberries on shares near Hammond, Louisiana. The husband said that in a good year they came out with maybe two hundred dollars, April 1939.. 1939. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Louisiana, Interiors, African American families, African Americans , Employment, African American agricultural laborers, Hammond (La.), Tenant farmers

Packing butter into tubs at the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, ID. The dairymen's cooperative is a member of two regional cooperative marketing associations. Butter is marketed through the Challenge Cream and Butter Association 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Caldwell, Idaho , Canyon County

Lining tub with oiled paper before packing butter into it. Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Caldwell, Idaho , Canyon County

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection Risk information service own, photo number 156-1124. 1956

Members and FSA (Farm Security Administration) officials at Casa Grande Farms making repairs in farm machinery. Pinal County, Arizona 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Arizona , Casa Grande, Arizona , Pinal County

Grading peas for packing and shipment. Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho. 1941. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Nampa, Idaho , Canyon County

Crude Products: Bolts and Handicraft - Tennessee. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Hydraulic pressure is applied to bags of crushed olives to force out the oil. The first pressing extracts about seventy-five percent of the entire oil content. This is fine virgin olive oil. Lindsay, California 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Lindsay, California , Tulare County

CCCID General Mechanics Class. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Red Lake Agency. 1964-. Photographs

Fishing - Alaska. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Lumberjack washing his feet. Camp near Effie, Minnesota. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota , Effie, Minnesota , Itasca County

Bales on bales of garments for men, women and children are being packed at the sewing project rooms in the quartermaster warehouses at the Army Base by WPA workers to be shipped to Springfield for flood refugees in that area. These men were busy all day yesterday, while the women of the project sewed busily all day long to meet the demands of the people who have been driven from their homes by floods.

Unholstering a chair at mattress factory. San Angelo, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

Officers inspecting factory , Ordnance industry, Armories, Military officers, Inspections, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Blacksmith shop. Abbeville, Louisiana. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana , Abbeville, Louisiana , Vermilion Parish

Negro boy sitting by the stove on a cold in the strawberry picking season near Independence, La. April 1939. An African American boy trying to warm up at stove.. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Louisiana, Interiors, Stoves, African American boys, Independence (La.)

Photo collection First World War. Womens Work. Glass Factory in Birmingham. British Women Glass Workers in The Midlands. Flatting The Bottom Of Hospital Measures. 1914-1918}. Birmingham, Great Britain

Worker at feed mill. Taylor, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Taylor, Texas , Williamson County

Steel vintage at Hofors Iron use in Gästrikland.

Crude Products: Bolts and Handicraft - Kentucky. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Weighing truckload of shelled (bulk) wheat at elevator. Eureka, Walla Walla County, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Eureka, Washington (State) , Walla Walla County

A hopper full of peas and conveyor at canning factory, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wisconsin , Sun Prairie, Wisconsin , Dane County

Sacking cotton seed meal. Cotton seed oil mill. McLennan County, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , McLennan County

Press forging , Armories, Ordnance industry, Forging, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Repairing tractor, Colfax. Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Colfax, Washington (State) , Whitman County

Ragnar Andersson and Carl Dahlén carry out maintenance on freight wagon in the traffic company Grängesberg - Oxelösunds Railways, TGOJ Workshop, Eskilstuna.

Repairing tractor, Colfax. Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Colfax, Washington (State) , Whitman County

Saw Products: Dimensions - Indiana. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Grading potatoes in cooperative association. Bradford, Vermont 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Vermont , Bradford, Vermont , Orange County

Farmers mixing grasshopper bait with assistance of the county supervisor. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , Oklahoma County, Farmers

Putting bars up to hold bags of olive pulp in place while under the hydraulic pressure which forces out the oil. Lindsay, California. About seventy-five percent of the oil content of the olives is removed by the first application of pressure; it is the 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Lindsay, California , Tulare County

Emptying freshly sheared mohair into sack which holds approximately three hundred pounds. Sack is taken to warehouse for storage. Junction, Texas. Kimble County 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Junction, Texas , Kimble County

Girls removing foreign matter and inferior peas. Pea canning factory, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wisconsin , Sun Prairie, Wisconsin , Dane County

Students Repairing a Tractor. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Carpenter's wife setting the table in front of their tent home. Mission Valley, California, which is about three miles from San Diego. These people followed construction work in Texas, Louisiana, Illinois and Arizona. (see full title in "notes" section) 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Mission Valley, California , San Diego County

Shearing sheep on ranch. In 1937, Oregon produced more that 17,000,000 pounds of wool, the average weight per fleece being about eight and a quarter pounds 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon

Repairing caterpillar tractor in repair shop at Colfax, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Colfax, Washington (State) , Whitman County

Girls removing foreign matter and inferior peas. Pea canning factory, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wisconsin , Sun Prairie, Wisconsin , Dane County

Migrant boy who is somewhat of a mechanic checking up the lighting wires of their improvised truck which will carry them to California. Near Muskogee, Oklahoma 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Muskogee, Oklahoma , Muskogee County

Hoisting Automobile for Repair. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Blacksmith shop. Abbeville, Louisiana. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana , Abbeville, Louisiana , Vermilion Parish

Stationary Engineering. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Flandreau School and Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Elsevier photo collection. Fisheries Monnickendam. Packing sprat. 1940-1945}. Monnickendam

Repicker or cleaner, who works at stationary-type mechanical hop picker. Yakima County, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Yakima County

Lining boxes with paper before packing with turkeys. Cold storage plant, Brownwood, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Brownwood, Texas , Brown County

Grading potatoes, preparing for shipment, cold, rainy morning, end of harvesting season. Potatoes have been stored in this grower's cellar. Ten miles south of Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Merrill, Oregon , Klamath County, Farms

Gallia. "Propaganda photography: a young cooper in a workshop, school of coopers of Lyon". Lyon / N.P.M. A young cooper, places the circles / iron around a barrel. Gelatino-silver-bromide draw. Dactylographed legend in black ink. in 1942-12-19-1942-12-19. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 144780-23

Rotapompen, anonymous, 1937 - 1938 photograph Rota pumps for mass suite, made around 1937-1938 and probably intended for the sugar industry. Part of the Batomap with photos of machines from the N.V. Machinefabriek Braat in Surabaya, Soekaboemi and Jogyakarta, from the period 1908-1942. Surabaya photographic support gelatin silver print Java

Equipment. Original caption: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Centrifugal machine for forming dough into shape for rolls. Bakery, San Angelo, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

Packing picked turkeys in boxes at cold storage plant. Brownwood, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Brownwood, Texas , Brown County

Contract No. 17, West Portion, Wachusett-Coldbrook Tunnel, Rutland, Oakham, Barre, rodmen screeding concrete immediately after placing, Sta. 377+00, Shaft 5, Rutland, Mass., Nov. 4, 1930

Tire repairman. Waco, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Waco, Texas , McLennan County

Track work after derailment of train 93, Nordpilen, on the route between Simeå and Undersvik 1956-03-27.

Southeast Missouri Farms. Corner of cooperative store on opening day. La Forge project, Missouri. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Missouri , La Forge, Missouri , New Madrid County

Farmers talking and looking at tire sale handbill, Weatherford, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Weatherford, Texas , Parker County

Robert Cecchini, steps in making of a plaster cast , Artists, Sculpture, Processes & techniques. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Pulp and Paper (mold) - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Loading cartons of groceries on truck at wholesale grocery. San Angelo, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. 120 hp Kromhout motor floats 90-ton coaster sailing speed 8 9 miles hour. December 1953. Guinea

Madame Dronet. First operation in spinning carded cotton into thread. Erath, Louisiana. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana , Erath, Louisiana , Vermilion Parish

Woman operating shaper , Armories, Ordnance industry, Machinery, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Retail grocers truck driver loading vegetables at early morning market. San Angelo, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

Icing crates of lettuce for shipment. Canyon County, Idaho 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Canyon County

Removing inferior peas and foreign matter from peas to be canned. Canning factory, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wisconsin , Sun Prairie, Wisconsin , Dane County

Workmen put crushed olives into heavy bags which will be put under hydraulic pressure to extract the oil. It takes an average of fifty-six pounds of olives to make a gallon of oil. Lindsay, California 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Lindsay, California , Tulare County

Sponging of the necks of freshly-picked turkeys. Cooperative poultry house, Brownwood, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Brownwood, Texas , Brown County

Grading turkeys at cold storage plant. Brownwood, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Brownwood, Texas , Brown County

Wheat farmer starts his caterpillar tractor with aid of rope. Whitman County, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Whitman County

Olives are washed and warmed before they are crushed and pressed for their oil. Lindsay, California. Half of California's annual crop of 44,000 tons of olives is used in the production of oil 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Lindsay, California , Tulare County

Girls checking quality of peas at canning factory, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wisconsin , Sun Prairie, Wisconsin , Dane County

Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait for use on their farms to control the pest. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , Oklahoma County, Farmers

W.H. Cox shelling corn in crib for his chickens. Clearcreek Township, Johnson County, Iowa. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Iowa , Clear Creek Township, Iowa , Johnson County

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. Repair and maintenance of a diesel engine (naiter school in Hamadi at Hollandia). October 1957. Hamadi, Hollandia, New Guinea

Packing the curd into two-pound mods, Tillamook Chees Plant, Tillamook, Oregon 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Tillamook, Oregon , Tillamook County

Receiving supplies at retail grocery. San Angelo, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

Vintage Photograph. Man filling chick water fountains.

Interior of shack occupied by Mexican beet workers, Near East Grand Forks, Minnesota. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota , East Grand Forks, Minnesota , Polk County

Contract No. 150, Installation of a Waterwheel, Generator, Switchgear, Transformer, Substation, and the Construction of a Transmission Line, Winsor Dam Power Plant, Belchertown, view of northeasterly corner in Outlet Works building showing location of generator, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Reservoir, Belchertown, Mass., Mar. 7, 1946

Negro farmer and blacksmith shop workman look over much-repaired wagon wheels to see if they can be made usable again. Depew, Oklahoma 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Depew, Oklahoma , Creek County

Tapping a blast furnace for slag, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Mr. Kah smelting gold at the Assay Office. Frank and Frances Carpenter collection , Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951, Assayers,Alaska,Nome,1890-1920, Smelters,Alaska,Nome,1890-1920, Gold,Alaska,Nome,1890-1920, United States,Alaska,Nome

Machine for grading peanuts at peanut-shelling plant. Comanche, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Comanche, Texas , Comanche County

State Railway's washing facility in Hagalund.

Loading truck with hay at feed store. Brownwood, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Brownwood, Texas , Brown County

Wives of migratory laborers working in the laundry room at the Agua Fria Migratory Labor Camp, Arizona. 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Arizona , Agua Fria, Arizona , Maricopa County

Elsevier photo collection. Laundry. November 19, 1945

Adjusting milking machine, Dakota County, Minnesota 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

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